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Joan Didion

Blue Nights

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  • thebookishomehas quoted6 years ago
    Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.
  • Fer Silvahas quoted7 years ago
    Did I believe the blue nights could last forever?
  • Anahas quoted3 years ago
    When we lose that sense of the possible we lose it fast.

    One day we are absorbed by dressing well, following the news, keeping up, coping, what we might call staying alive; the next day we are not.
  • Anahas quoted3 years ago
    Like when someone dies, don’t dwell on it.
  • Anahas quoted3 years ago
    Patti Smith sang her a lullaby that she had written for her own son.
  • Anahas quoted3 years ago
    In fact I had lived my entire life to date without seriously believing that I would age
  • Anahas quoted3 years ago
    All adopted children, I am told, fear that they will be abandoned by their adoptive parents as they believe themselves to have been abandoned by their natural. They are programmed, by the unique circumstances of their introduction into the family structure, to see abandonment as their role, their fate, the destiny that will overtake them unless they outrun it.
  • Anahas quoted3 years ago
    New neurologists remain the last true believers in the power of wishful thinking.
  • Anahas quoted3 years ago
    I do not know many people who think they have succeeded as parents. Those who do tend to cite the markers that indicate (their own) status in the world: the Stanford degree, the Harvard MBA, the summer with the white-shoe law firm. Those of us less inclined to compliment ourselves on our parenting skills, in other words most of us, recite rosaries of our failures, our neglects, our derelictions and delinquencies.
  • Anahas quoted3 years ago
    Dreaming in other words that I had failed.

    Been given a baby and failed to keep her safe.

    When we think about adopting a child, or for that matter about having a child at all, we stress the “blessing” aspect.
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